Southern Belle (31 page)
Authors: Stuart Jaffe
Tags: #Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, #Private Investigators, #Supernatural, #Witches & Wizards, #Science Fiction & Fantasy, #Fantasy, #Paranormal & Urban, #North Carolina, #winston salem, #Magic, #Paranormal, #Ghosts, #Mystery
Drummond rambled on for a while, but this time Max truly did not mind. In fact, he kind of liked the reassuring sound of his friend's voice. But he would never admit it.
Afterword
Every town on Earth has a fascinating history of murders and mysteries. The older the place, the more bizarre the tales become. Just ask anyone living near a castle in Great Britain. Thankfully, for both of us, Winston-Salem has been around for a long time (at least, long by American standards) and has a rich history of strange happenings.
The Zinzendorf Hotel fire, the DeGraff murder case, the Frank and Lucy Hine case, and the Sarah Tilkey tragedy, are among many of the true stories found in this book. Well, true at their core. I have, of course, embellished upon them by adding in the entirely fictitious cursed Bells of the Damned and their ramifications.
The photo of Patricia Welling in Tanglewood Park is a fiction, though the location is real. The photo of the Zinzendorf Hotel fire is real and can easily be found on the internet. Take a look at it. It's amazing.
Thank you for once more taking the time to join Max, Sandra, Drummond, and myself. I promise, if you keep reading their stories, I'll keep writing them.
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Acknowledgements
It never ceases to amaze me how many people get involved in helping me bring a story from my head to the page. This time around, my thanks go out to Joel Goldman, Mike Lowndes and the fine people at PML Media, Duncan Long for his amazing artwork, Amy Ball for proofreading and friendship, fellow writers Ed Schubert and John Hartness, and as always, my dearest and closest, Glory and Gabe.
Of course, my biggest thank you is reserved for you, my reader. Without you, none of this amounts to anything more than a guy making up stories for himself (which probably gets one locked up in some states).
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About the Author
Stuart Jaffe is the author of
The Max Porter Paranormal-Mysteries, The Malja Chronicles,
the
Gillian Boone
novels,
The Bluesman
series,
Real Magic, After The Crash,
and much more. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He is the co-host of The Eclectic Review - a weekly podcast about science, art, and well, everything. For those who keep count, the latest animal listing is as follows: one dog, four cats, one albino corn snake, one Brazilian black tarantula, three aquatic turtles, seventeen chickens, and a horse. Thankfully, the chickens and the horse do not live inside the house.
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Copyright Notice
Southern Belle
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
SOUTHERN BELLE
All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2013 by Stuart Jaffe
Cover art by Duncan Long
First Edition: August, 2013
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